No Pidgin for Slackers [LWN.net]

No Pidgin for Slackers

Posted May 17, 2007 2:13 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
Parent article: No Pidgin for Slackers

The gaim developers also have a stink with gentoo users as well, as the
flexibility of portage from time to time caused bugs in the gaim code to
pop up that didn't elsewhere. Granted the ricer tendancies of some
gentoo users didn't help the situation, but the gaim devs also have a
tendency to blow off users of distro's that don't follow the gaim dev's
every whim on how to package gaim.

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No Pidgin for Slackers

Posted May 17, 2007 10:33 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

This is very bizzare.

What? Are they all Fedora or Ubuntu fanboys or something?

Slackware folks have always maintained that package management is just a glaze to cover up larger more systematic issues with Linux software and I don't think they are entirely wrong.

Do they have a problem with listing dependancies in their README file in their source tarball? Is that to difficult for them or something?

Slackware users are grow-ups, they can figure out themselves what packages you need for Pidgen if they are given decent information.

No Pidgin for Slackers

Posted May 17, 2007 20:16 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178) [Link]

although thankfully not very common, this isn't limited to Gaim/Roofrat. it's a certain type of developmental mindset we see from time to time. basically they demand full control over every aspect of project up to and including the final product; usually packages for Red Hat/Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu. any issues you might encounter outside of these officially blessed and mandated uses is a direct result of Your Broken System, never their inflexible code, and since it Works For Them it's Not Their Problem.

that's fine, it's their project and they can run it however they want. we usually just roll our eyes and send patches for them to ignore.